BeverlyCleary

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Beverly Cleary books

• Bevery Atlee Bunn born McMinnville April 12, 1916

  • farmer Chester Lloyd (1887-1951) and schoolteacher Mable Atlee Bin (1887-1971), raised Presbyterian
  • moved to Portland Grant Park neighborhood
• B.A. UC Berkeley
• B.A. U. Washington
• married Clarence T. Cleary 1940, who died 15 Jun 2004 (age 94)
• active 1950 to 2005

• died Carmel-by-the-Sea March 25, 2021 (age 104), buried Pike Cemetery Yamhill OR west of NW Hacker Road

• Beverly Cleary K-8 school

• character statues in Grant Park 1995

A Girl From Yamhill

PSU Lib PZ9.5.C538 A3 1988

Pleasant

• p228 Grant high school French classes aimed at reading knowledge, not speaking. Lucky students, those vowels are murder, especially with undiagnosed severe hearing loss.
• p274 ... except for coaches who taught history ...

• p276 1934 film Of Human Bondage

My Own Two Feet

PSU Lib PZ9.5.C538 A3 1995

Beverly Cleary college years, through marriage and house at 1091 Creston Road in Berkeley

• p001 September (1934) forest fires (where?)

• p002 Chaffey Junior College in Ontario, California

• p005 Great grandfather built the first mill in Oregon at Williamette Falls

• p005 voile bedspread

• p007 DEPEW ??? painted on rooftops

• p015 Rickenbacker automobile

• p040 mangle

• p046 in 1930s Oregon was considered "rock-solid" (earthquake proof)
• p047 Before frozen orange juice, cull oranges used for fertilier

• p058 no daughter of theirs would work at Meier& Frank

• p079 trench mouth

• p081 assignment read Madame Bovary without a dictionary

• p091 Stebbins Hall student housing

• p095 smell of tomato catsup from cannery down on the flats

• p100 James Thurber "Humor is best that lies closest to the familiar"

• p104 new San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge opened November 1936

• p105 campus myth that students entered the Engineering Building and were not seen for four years.
• p106 after graduation, engineers more interesting
• p106 meets Clarence Cleary from Sacramento at Assembly Dance

• p106 dated Wilfred British physicist working with Ernest Lawrence

• p113 Clarence boardinghouse room was filmed in The Graduate

• p114 nother did not like that Clarence was Catholic
• p124 "In every exam I have ever taken, someone, almost always a man, arose from his chair long before the Campanile struck the hour, dropped his blue book on a table at the front of the room, and walked out, leaving the rest of us to wonder if he was brilliant and found the exam so easy that he finished quickly or if he found the exam so difficult that it was hopeless."
• p125 Psych 170 got a B, "but where were all the A's I was used to?"
• p126 home to Portland, Sherwin-Williams "Cover the Earth" lightbulb animated sign
• p131 January 17 193? 85yo grandfather dies

• p132 Saint Simeon Stylites

• p145 Bertrand Bronson course "The Age of Johnson"; years later told wife how much pleasure her husband's course had given. "I'll tell him. He often wonders."

• p160 Clarence job at Department of Employment in Sacramento

• p163 School of Librarianship in Suzzallo Library

  • 48 women and 2 men in the class, most worked in libraries already and seeking professional credentials

• p167 finally gets eyeglasses to correct nearsightedness and astigmatism

• p173 "Portland Library Association" sic; Library Association of Portland became Multnomah County Library in 1990
• p173 bookmobile trip up the Columbia River
  • p180-200 Yakima Library

• p183 NYA National Youth Administration 1935 to 1943

• p186 cat skinner is a man who drives a Caterpillar tractor

• p186 "write a chapter about Puddin'": family camp on Pudding River

• p187 The Five Chinese Brothers 1938 by Clair Huchet Bishop

• p191 discarding battered books engenders taxpayer protests; ripped, inked, shown to library board, which permitted discard to town dump
• p192 friend Virginia dies of ruptured appendix
  • (p133 high school friend Virginia and her fiancé Bob)

• p194 Swan Island Airport (1927 to 1940)

• p195 Charlie (p181, older man at employment office) haunted by memories of WW1

• p197 1940 married at Reno Reno Church of our lady of the snows

• p197 no children until twins in 1955

• p199 announcement party, library catalog card: Cleary, Beverly Atlee (Bunn), 1916-

• p202 gardenia corsages grow on trees

• p203 Theater on Powell two movies 25 cents

• p205 Berkeley Sather Gate Book Shop, Quail Hawkins sold children books 1931 to 1972. Hired Beverley Cleary in 1941

• p207 "world famous scientist who shall remain nameless" demands most beautiful children's book
• p208 slow-moving books kept near cash register labelled "Mrs. Wogus will call"

• p212 assisted post librarian at Oakland Army Base

• p214 gabardine suit

• p218 mathematics book returned to library from guardhouse, Bible only reading permitted there

• p224 AR 210-70 Red Cross thwarted, Cleary official hospital librarian

  • Colonel Harry L. Dale letter to Helen Keller

• p246 Clarence dug up "huge thistle". "Don't you like artichokes?" asked neighbor

• p247 Elisabeth Hamilton Morrow books children's editor

• p247 nonreading boys wanted books about "kids like us"
• p248 thirteen years since Beverly wrote anything but letter, radio talks, and tiresome academic papers

• p255 author Harvey Ferguson and Oregon author H. L. Davis

• p256 July 1949 letter from Elisabeth Hamilton, book editor at Morrow

• p259 Sara
• p260 Walked down Euclid Avenue (2.2 miles south from Grizzly Peak Blvd.)